WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.279 This sermon started in me thinking about wanting to preach on prayer after Josh's sermon last week. 00:00:13.780 --> 00:00:18.960 ! For those of you guys who don't know, Josh is leading this church plant. 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:23.339 He switches between Bellicose and Christ Church. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:30.640 Right now he's at Bellicose preaching, and the guys here just rotate, and different people preaching. 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:35.019 But he was preaching on strong faith, and I wanted to preach on prayer. 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:45.679 And then just thinking about all the different things that happened this week just led me to, right now I guess, do or die. 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:53.119 Which is living for the kingdom of God in faith and action. 00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:54.640 Right? 00:00:55.439 --> 00:01:01.739 And I'll start with what George Whitefield said a while ago. 00:01:01.939 --> 00:01:02.320 He's dead. 00:01:03.239 --> 00:01:03.760 He said, 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:29.500 The reason why he said this is because there were actors who were talking to Doug Riley. 00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:32.079 And these actors said, 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:37.459 Hey, we've listened to sermons from other preachers. 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.640 And they believe that it's true, but they talk like it's imaginary. 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:46.439 Why do you preach like it's real? 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:47.519 Right? 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:57.119 And really, what I wanted to think about is the realness and sobriety of Christ and the kingdom of God. 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:06.719 Recent events that happened that I was alluding to is one, a school shooting that happened in Colorado. 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:07.679 Right? 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:09.200 Evergreen High School. 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:20.980 And then a stabbing in Charlotte of a young woman from Ukraine, Irina Zerutsko. 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:23.700 And then Charlie Kirk. 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.620 Charlie Kirk getting assassinated. 00:02:26.620 --> 00:02:33.800 These are all weighty things. 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:35.080 Right? 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:36.740 Awful things. 00:02:37.780 --> 00:02:45.980 Yet there's many on different sides who want to bear arms and take up actions and fight against one another. 00:02:45.979 --> 00:02:53.979 And just in light of all these events is why I want to preach on living for the kingdom of God. 00:02:56.439 --> 00:03:01.500 And so I think that we should just start at what the kingdom of God is and just the kingdom of God in general. 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:02.159 Right? 00:03:04.239 --> 00:03:05.459 So the kingdom of God. 00:03:05.459 --> 00:03:14.979 If we use some critical thinking, we thought really hard, we can deduce that the kingdom of God is God's kingdom. 00:03:15.979 --> 00:03:19.199 That's a shame. 00:03:20.399 --> 00:03:21.039 Easy. 00:03:24.259 --> 00:03:25.379 My job is done here. 00:03:26.419 --> 00:03:26.719 Okay. 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:32.699 I'll start with where this first comes on the scene, which is with John the Baptist. 00:03:34.079 --> 00:03:36.000 John the Baptist starts with saying, 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:41.179 In those days, John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, 00:03:41.180 --> 00:03:42.080 Repent. 00:03:42.900 --> 00:03:46.460 Because the kingdom of God has come near. 00:03:47.060 --> 00:03:49.240 Or the kingdom of heaven has come near. 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:51.000 That's Matthew 3, 1 through 2. 00:03:51.099 --> 00:03:51.460 And then, 00:03:52.040 --> 00:03:58.520 Right after Jesus was tested and sifted by Satan, 00:03:59.260 --> 00:03:59.460 Right? 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:02.200 He began to preach. 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:03.460 And he began to preach, 00:04:03.620 --> 00:04:04.080 Repent. 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:07.700 Because the kingdom of God has come near. 00:04:08.100 --> 00:04:08.280 Right? 00:04:08.940 --> 00:04:12.280 So John starts preaching, 00:04:12.980 --> 00:04:14.460 Repent for it has come near. 00:04:15.060 --> 00:04:15.860 And then, 00:04:15.860 --> 00:04:16.960 Jesus, 00:04:17.259 --> 00:04:17.939 Repent for, 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:19.439 It is at hand, 00:04:19.620 --> 00:04:20.340 The ESV said. 00:04:21.139 --> 00:04:22.060 Preach from the CSV, 00:04:22.259 --> 00:04:23.939 But like the ESV there better. 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:24.879 It is at hand. 00:04:25.020 --> 00:04:25.460 At hand. 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:25.680 00:04:25.780 --> 00:04:26.819 It's like, 00:04:27.420 --> 00:04:27.780 In my, 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:28.720 I could grab it. 00:04:28.900 --> 00:04:29.100 Right? 00:04:29.700 --> 00:04:30.860 It's where the kingdom of God is. 00:04:30.900 --> 00:04:31.080 Right? 00:04:33.320 --> 00:04:33.720 Which, 00:04:33.820 --> 00:04:34.760 When I think of a kingdom, 00:04:34.939 --> 00:04:35.140 Though, 00:04:35.260 --> 00:04:36.460 I think of a place. 00:04:37.740 --> 00:04:38.100 Right? 00:04:38.540 --> 00:04:40.780 How can the kingdom of God be at hand? 00:04:42.020 --> 00:04:43.120 If it's a place. 00:04:43.200 --> 00:04:43.379 Like, 00:04:43.400 --> 00:04:43.980 Is it coming? 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:45.439 What does this really mean? 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:47.340 And I, 00:04:47.400 --> 00:04:48.939 And I found a really good definition, 00:04:49.180 --> 00:04:50.500 Which is the kingdom of God, 00:04:51.220 --> 00:04:53.140 Other than God's kingdom, 00:04:53.520 --> 00:04:53.860 Is 00:04:53.860 --> 00:04:56.180 Fundamentally, 00:04:56.180 --> 00:04:58.540 God's sovereign rule, 00:04:58.740 --> 00:04:59.280 Express, 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:00.579 And realize, 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:01.980 Through the different stages, 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:03.800 Of redemptive history. 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:04.160 Right? 00:05:04.280 --> 00:05:05.280 Old to New Testament. 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:07.860 The biblical doctrine, 00:05:08.259 --> 00:05:09.400 Uh, 00:05:09.460 --> 00:05:10.340 Derives the truth, 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:11.060 That God, 00:05:11.420 --> 00:05:12.280 As the one, 00:05:12.819 --> 00:05:13.120 True, 00:05:13.340 --> 00:05:13.660 Living, 00:05:13.780 --> 00:05:14.720 Eternal ruler, 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:16.699 Always existed, 00:05:17.740 --> 00:05:19.500 And because he is creator, 00:05:19.939 --> 00:05:22.000 Reigns over all his creation. 00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:23.699 Right? 00:05:24.100 --> 00:05:25.280 The kingdom of God, 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:26.919 Is already, 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:28.839 It is already present, 00:05:29.359 --> 00:05:30.919 But not fully realized. 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:32.439 Uh, 00:05:32.500 --> 00:05:33.139 It is the, 00:05:33.139 --> 00:05:34.419 Um, 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:36.159 The exercise of God's sovereignty, 00:05:36.159 --> 00:05:36.779 In the world, 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:38.199 Towards the, 00:05:38.539 --> 00:05:38.899 Uh, 00:05:38.919 --> 00:05:39.899 Eventual redemption, 00:05:39.899 --> 00:05:40.859 Of all creation. 00:05:41.059 --> 00:05:42.359 And really what I want to get to, 00:05:42.419 --> 00:05:42.859 Right there, 00:05:43.459 --> 00:05:44.359 Is the kingdom of God, 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:45.379 Is already present, 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:46.639 But not fully realized. 00:05:47.419 --> 00:05:48.359 Does that make sense? 00:05:48.859 --> 00:05:49.559 Probably doesn't. 00:05:50.599 --> 00:05:51.000 Uh, 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:52.599 The kingdom of God is at hand. 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:53.759 Right? 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:54.560 It's at hand, 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:55.259 But it's not here. 00:05:57.300 --> 00:05:58.319 It is, 00:05:58.379 --> 00:05:59.180 It's saying like, 00:05:59.279 --> 00:05:59.519 It's, 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.759 It is attention to be held in. 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:04.620 It is at hand, 00:06:04.860 --> 00:06:06.480 But it is not yet. 00:06:06.719 --> 00:06:08.379 It is not fully realized. 00:06:08.740 --> 00:06:10.399 The fullness of God's kingdom, 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:11.519 Will be realized, 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:12.339 Uh, 00:06:12.339 --> 00:06:13.360 When the end is here. 00:06:13.899 --> 00:06:14.199 Right? 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:15.240 But, 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:15.680 Um, 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:18.539 If we go to Luke, 00:06:18.819 --> 00:06:19.180 Uh, 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:20.519 Luke 17, 00:06:21.099 --> 00:06:21.860 Um, 00:06:22.180 --> 00:06:23.199 I'll be jumping around, 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:23.899 Different, 00:06:24.459 --> 00:06:25.180 Some places, 00:06:25.300 --> 00:06:26.139 Because this is topical. 00:06:26.939 --> 00:06:27.300 Uh, 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:28.579 Luke 17, 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.379 Verses 20 to 23, 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:31.620 Uh, 00:06:31.659 --> 00:06:33.139 Jesus is talking to the Pharisees, 00:06:33.659 --> 00:06:35.099 And this is what he says, 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:35.699 When he, 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:37.639 When he was asked by the Pharisees, 00:06:37.699 --> 00:06:39.199 When the kingdom of God would come, 00:06:39.599 --> 00:06:39.839 Right? 00:06:39.899 --> 00:06:41.439 They're thinking of a literal kingdom. 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:42.180 Right? 00:06:42.180 --> 00:06:44.019 When the kingdom of God would come, 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:44.759 He answered them, 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:47.160 The kingdom of God is not coming. 00:06:47.819 --> 00:06:48.220 Um, 00:06:48.860 --> 00:06:50.860 Is not coming with something observable. 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:52.000 No one will say, 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:52.680 See here, 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:53.500 Or there. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:58.439 Um, 00:06:59.699 --> 00:07:00.180 For you see, 00:07:00.259 --> 00:07:02.120 The kingdom of God is in your midst. 00:07:04.579 --> 00:07:05.280 Then he, 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:06.399 He told the disciples, 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:08.519 The days are coming when you will no longer, 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:09.420 Uh, 00:07:09.660 --> 00:07:11.300 See the days of the Son of Man, 00:07:11.300 --> 00:07:12.000 But you won't, 00:07:12.220 --> 00:07:12.520 Sorry. 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:13.800 Uh, 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:14.540 They will say to you, 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:15.139 See here, 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:15.960 Or see here, 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:17.139 But don't follow, 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:18.180 Or run after them. 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:18.600 Right? 00:07:19.300 --> 00:07:19.560 Uh, 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:19.720 There, 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:21.379 There will be people coming up, 00:07:22.020 --> 00:07:22.900 Who will be saying, 00:07:23.020 --> 00:07:23.300 Like, 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:23.920 Follow me, 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:25.020 Or follow this teaching, 00:07:25.100 --> 00:07:25.860 Or follow whatever. 00:07:26.379 --> 00:07:26.819 Jesus is saying, 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:28.500 I am the kingdom of God. 00:07:29.740 --> 00:07:30.980 I am the full, 00:07:31.100 --> 00:07:32.360 I am the expression, 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:33.660 Of the kingdom of God. 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:34.800 Um, 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:34.840 Um, 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:37.420 Which, 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:39.060 Which is crazy. 00:07:40.379 --> 00:07:40.900 Uh, 00:07:40.900 --> 00:07:42.060 The kingdom of God, 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:43.259 The king, 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:45.600 God himself incarnate, 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:46.720 Came down. 00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:48.560 Right? 00:07:48.860 --> 00:07:50.720 The king comes down to his subjects, 00:07:50.819 --> 00:07:51.740 To his creation. 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:52.920 Uh, 00:07:52.980 --> 00:07:53.160 There, 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:53.920 There's a, 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.699 There's a Timothy Brindle song, 00:07:57.060 --> 00:07:57.319 Uh, 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:58.360 That talks of, 00:07:58.360 --> 00:07:59.019 Uh, 00:07:59.019 --> 00:08:00.500 The humility of Christ, 00:08:00.819 --> 00:08:02.139 That the creator, 00:08:02.299 --> 00:08:03.599 Passes through his own, 00:08:03.599 --> 00:08:04.199 Uh, 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:05.039 Creature's body. 00:08:06.599 --> 00:08:07.740 He became a babe. 00:08:09.180 --> 00:08:09.659 Right? 00:08:09.719 --> 00:08:11.120 That is crazy to think about. 00:08:11.180 --> 00:08:12.539 The creator of the universe. 00:08:12.899 --> 00:08:14.039 The creator of his own mother. 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.379 But he is the kingdom of God, 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:19.039 That has come, 00:08:19.219 --> 00:08:19.639 Uh, 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:20.579 Within our midst. 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:20.959 Right? 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:21.060 Uh, 00:08:22.939 --> 00:08:23.099 What, 00:08:23.159 --> 00:08:23.339 What, 00:08:23.419 --> 00:08:23.959 What, 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:25.060 What does that mean though? 00:08:25.339 --> 00:08:25.579 Right? 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:27.299 What does he come to do? 00:08:27.299 --> 00:08:27.699 Uh, 00:08:29.019 --> 00:08:30.019 Tell you later. 00:08:31.500 --> 00:08:32.819 As the sermon progresses. 00:08:34.179 --> 00:08:34.620 Um, 00:08:34.819 --> 00:08:36.559 But really, 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.639 I want to get more into what the kingdom of God is. 00:08:40.100 --> 00:08:40.500 Uh, 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:40.879 So, 00:08:41.500 --> 00:08:43.019 The kingdom of God is at hand. 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:44.179 Kingdom of God is near. 00:08:44.439 --> 00:08:45.819 Jesus is the kingdom of God. 00:08:46.379 --> 00:08:46.879 Um, 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:47.679 And then, 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.840 The kingdom is also a fatherly kingdom. 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:51.679 Right? 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:51.779 Uh, 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:54.259 You guys know the Lord's Prayer. 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:55.819 Our Father. 00:08:55.820 --> 00:08:59.700 Holy is your name. 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:01.120 Your kingdom come. 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:01.340 Right? 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:01.780 So, 00:09:01.980 --> 00:09:02.560 This is, 00:09:02.740 --> 00:09:03.200 This is, 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:04.860 God the Father's kingdom. 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:05.680 Right? 00:09:05.700 --> 00:09:06.879 Jesus is praying to God the Father. 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:07.840 Your kingdom come. 00:09:08.640 --> 00:09:09.040 Um, 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:10.640 But not only is it his kingdom. 00:09:10.820 --> 00:09:11.860 Because he is a father, 00:09:12.040 --> 00:09:14.520 It is an expression of him being fatherly. 00:09:14.980 --> 00:09:16.879 And this is a fatherly kingdom. 00:09:17.040 --> 00:09:17.220 Right? 00:09:18.280 --> 00:09:18.540 Uh, 00:09:18.540 --> 00:09:19.760 Not just the kingdom of Jesus. 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:20.380 Not, 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:20.600 Not, 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:22.380 God the Father's kingdom. 00:09:22.660 --> 00:09:22.860 Right? 00:09:22.860 --> 00:09:24.060 Um, 00:09:24.860 --> 00:09:30.320 And in this, 00:09:30.680 --> 00:09:31.200 Uh, 00:09:31.220 --> 00:09:32.039 In this kingdom, 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.200 God will give authority over, 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:35.879 Uh, 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:36.519 To Jesus. 00:09:36.740 --> 00:09:36.960 Right? 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:38.680 Uh, 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:39.120 For, 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:40.240 For we read in Hebrews, 00:09:40.860 --> 00:09:41.240 Um, 00:09:41.500 --> 00:09:44.620 For he is not subjected to the angels, 00:09:44.820 --> 00:09:45.419 Uh, 00:09:45.419 --> 00:09:46.060 The world, 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:46.639 Uh, 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:48.180 The world to come that we are thinking about. 00:09:48.740 --> 00:09:49.019 Uh, 00:09:49.019 --> 00:09:49.680 But somewhere, 00:09:49.920 --> 00:09:51.360 Someone testified, 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.480 What is man that you remember him? 00:09:53.560 --> 00:09:55.379 Or the son of man that you care for him? 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.139 You made him lower than the angels for a short time. 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:00.700 You crowned him with glory and honor, 00:10:00.980 --> 00:10:04.019 And subjected everything under his feet. 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:05.620 And he says, 00:10:05.700 --> 00:10:06.840 For subjecting everything, 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:07.360 Uh, 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:07.740 To him, 00:10:07.800 --> 00:10:10.259 He left nothing that is not subject to him. 00:10:10.700 --> 00:10:11.000 Right? 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:12.340 The kingdom, 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:13.039 Uh, 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:14.039 That is the father's, 00:10:14.100 --> 00:10:15.700 Is subjected to the son. 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:16.480 Right? 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.259 That Jesus is the kingdom of God, 00:10:19.300 --> 00:10:22.019 And he is the king of the kingdom of God. 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:23.320 Um, 00:10:23.560 --> 00:10:23.340 Uh, 00:10:25.580 --> 00:10:30.279 Again, 00:10:30.379 --> 00:10:31.000 This idea, 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:31.340 Though, 00:10:31.860 --> 00:10:32.159 Uh, 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:33.240 That's seen in here, 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:34.120 Where he says, 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:35.659 But we do not see, 00:10:35.659 --> 00:10:36.120 Uh, 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:37.120 Jesus made, 00:10:37.340 --> 00:10:38.200 But we see, 00:10:38.340 --> 00:10:40.019 We do see Jesus made lower, 00:10:40.500 --> 00:10:42.279 Than the angels for a short time, 00:10:42.800 --> 00:10:43.460 So that by, 00:10:43.460 --> 00:10:44.759 By God's grace, 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:45.779 He might taste death, 00:10:45.779 --> 00:10:46.500 Uh, 00:10:46.500 --> 00:10:48.120 Crowned with glory and honor, 00:10:48.539 --> 00:10:49.759 Because he suffered death. 00:10:49.819 --> 00:10:50.079 Right? 00:10:50.620 --> 00:10:50.879 Uh, 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.039 In that he subjected everything under Jesus' feet. 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:54.959 Uh, 00:10:54.959 --> 00:10:55.839 And you could say, 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:56.860 Well, 00:10:56.899 --> 00:10:59.240 If he subjected everything under Jesus' feet, 00:10:59.379 --> 00:11:00.079 Where is Jesus? 00:11:01.459 --> 00:11:02.000 Like, 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:03.019 If this, 00:11:03.299 --> 00:11:03.720 Uh, 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.939 If this world is under Jesus' feet, 00:11:06.500 --> 00:11:09.339 Where is Jesus ruling and reigning? 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:11.319 Uh, 00:11:11.319 --> 00:11:11.980 Where's this king? 00:11:12.500 --> 00:11:13.559 You're saying this is his kingdom, 00:11:13.740 --> 00:11:13.839 Where, 00:11:13.839 --> 00:11:14.339 Where's, 00:11:14.779 --> 00:11:15.199 Where's, 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:16.320 Where's he enthroned? 00:11:17.540 --> 00:11:17.980 Right? 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:19.680 Uh, 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.300 There is a tension to be held in that, 00:11:22.500 --> 00:11:22.700 Where, 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:24.240 I can still say, 00:11:24.860 --> 00:11:25.560 Already, 00:11:25.680 --> 00:11:26.180 But not yet. 00:11:27.740 --> 00:11:29.500 Already subjected to, 00:11:29.500 --> 00:11:30.060 Uh, 00:11:30.060 --> 00:11:30.360 Jesus, 00:11:30.700 --> 00:11:30.860 But, 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:31.740 But not yet. 00:11:31.800 --> 00:11:32.340 The fullness, 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:34.420 Is not here yet. 00:11:35.900 --> 00:11:38.700 God is withholding for the right time, 00:11:38.920 --> 00:11:40.960 To bring the fullness of the kingdom. 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:42.639 And as believers, 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:42.639 00:11:42.820 --> 00:11:43.340 We know, 00:11:43.660 --> 00:11:44.660 That it is not yet. 00:11:44.820 --> 00:11:48.740 We have been given the promises and revelations that it will come. 00:11:50.060 --> 00:11:50.379 Uh, 00:11:50.379 --> 00:11:52.259 And that is strong faith to believe, 00:11:52.259 --> 00:11:53.220 Uh, 00:11:53.259 --> 00:11:53.420 That, 00:11:53.500 --> 00:11:53.780 That, 00:11:53.780 --> 00:11:56.019 Uh, 00:11:56.019 --> 00:11:56.860 That it will come. 00:11:57.060 --> 00:11:57.300 Right? 00:11:58.300 --> 00:11:58.860 Um, 00:11:58.860 --> 00:12:00.500 Now, 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:04.779 That is a snapshot of what the kingdom of God is. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:05.440 Uh, 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:09.480 There's many different expressions of what the kingdom of God is that Jesus says. 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:10.080 Uh, 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:10.379 Jesus says, 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:12.879 The kingdom of God is like a man who goes out in his field, 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:13.539 Uh, 00:12:13.539 --> 00:12:14.360 And sows seed, 00:12:14.419 --> 00:12:15.820 And he does not know how it grows. 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:16.039 Like, 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:19.279 There's many expressions of the kingdom of God. 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:22.360 But these few things is what I want us to think about. 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.259 That the kingdom of God is one, 00:12:24.659 --> 00:12:25.480 God's kingdom. 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:25.960 Uh, 00:12:26.560 --> 00:12:28.740 It is under Jesus's feet. 00:12:29.220 --> 00:12:29.440 Uh, 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.379 It is a fatherly kingdom. 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:32.060 Uh, 00:12:32.060 --> 00:12:32.420 Because 00:12:32.420 --> 00:12:35.180 The fathers who owns it, 00:12:35.340 --> 00:12:36.740 It is being given to Jesus. 00:12:37.700 --> 00:12:39.720 And to get into the kingdom, 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:41.960 You must repent and believe. 00:12:42.920 --> 00:12:43.440 Repent. 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:46.080 For the kingdom of God is at hand. 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:47.340 Right? 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:49.519 Jesus and John both say that. 00:12:50.860 --> 00:12:51.460 Uh, 00:12:51.460 --> 00:12:51.680 And, 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:53.180 And with Josh preaching, 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:53.720 Uh, 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:54.480 Last week he says, 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:55.220 Now faith, 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:55.940 Uh, 00:12:55.940 --> 00:12:56.440 In Hebrews, 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:57.180 Uh, 00:12:57.740 --> 00:12:58.360 Hebrews 11, 00:12:58.460 --> 00:12:58.620 One, 00:12:58.680 --> 00:13:00.940 Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for. 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:02.560 The proof of what is, 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:03.180 Uh, 00:13:03.180 --> 00:13:03.899 Not seen. 00:13:04.300 --> 00:13:05.120 And then verse six. 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:06.519 Now without faith, 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:09.240 It is impossible to please God. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:15.240 Since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 00:13:15.940 --> 00:13:16.259 Uh, 00:13:16.259 --> 00:13:17.240 Many times I, 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:18.159 I hear people saying, 00:13:18.259 --> 00:13:19.399 I don't believe in God because I, 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:20.980 I don't believe in what I don't see. 00:13:21.920 --> 00:13:22.320 Right? 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:24.420 I believe in love. 00:13:25.420 --> 00:13:25.800 Um, 00:13:26.140 --> 00:13:27.500 But, 00:13:27.700 --> 00:13:29.960 In that, 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:34.580 Just thinking about have, 00:13:34.760 --> 00:13:35.360 Like what, 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:42.779 We need to repent and believe in order to be in this kingdom. 00:13:43.659 --> 00:13:46.879 That is the only way we can be in God's kingdom. 00:13:47.779 --> 00:13:48.279 Right? 00:13:48.680 --> 00:13:50.919 God sent his beloved son, 00:13:51.980 --> 00:13:52.259 Jesus, 00:13:52.460 --> 00:13:53.340 To die for us. 00:13:54.100 --> 00:13:54.659 The king, 00:13:55.100 --> 00:13:55.919 As I've talked about, 00:13:56.019 --> 00:13:58.700 Passing through his own creature's body. 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:00.580 Right? 00:14:00.580 --> 00:14:03.840 To live a perfect life of active obedience. 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:06.980 Have you lived a life of active obedience? 00:14:07.220 --> 00:14:08.340 Perfect active obedience. 00:14:10.280 --> 00:14:11.180 I have not. 00:14:12.580 --> 00:14:14.920 The only way to get into this kingdom, 00:14:15.680 --> 00:14:17.780 Is by repenting. 00:14:18.100 --> 00:14:20.620 Which is to turn away from your sins. 00:14:21.259 --> 00:14:22.139 Which is to, 00:14:22.220 --> 00:14:23.960 To say no more to that. 00:14:24.620 --> 00:14:26.660 No more to that old man. 00:14:27.259 --> 00:14:27.540 Right? 00:14:27.539 --> 00:14:28.939 No more to your sin, 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:29.719 To your flesh, 00:14:29.860 --> 00:14:31.419 To anything that you used to be. 00:14:32.779 --> 00:14:32.959 Uh, 00:14:32.980 --> 00:14:33.620 In my own, 00:14:33.620 --> 00:14:33.899 Uh, 00:14:33.899 --> 00:14:34.339 In my own life, 00:14:34.419 --> 00:14:35.899 I used to bow down and worship, 00:14:36.500 --> 00:14:36.659 To, 00:14:36.719 --> 00:14:36.980 To, 00:14:37.019 --> 00:14:37.559 To Allah. 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:39.199 To another God. 00:14:40.179 --> 00:14:41.579 Is saying no to that. 00:14:42.579 --> 00:14:45.279 It is to be rejected by friends and family. 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:46.959 And saying, 00:14:47.059 --> 00:14:48.959 I will turn to this Christian God. 00:14:49.819 --> 00:14:51.620 And be in this kingdom. 00:14:52.019 --> 00:14:52.759 Have you repented? 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:56.620 Have you fully repented? 00:14:56.860 --> 00:14:57.700 Realizing that, 00:14:57.799 --> 00:14:59.259 To count the cost, 00:14:59.899 --> 00:15:00.100 Uh, 00:15:00.100 --> 00:15:02.039 Is not just mere words. 00:15:02.259 --> 00:15:03.039 It is life. 00:15:03.659 --> 00:15:04.139 Right? 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:05.899 It is your life. 00:15:07.379 --> 00:15:07.939 Uh, 00:15:07.980 --> 00:15:09.659 That's a bit of the kingdom of God. 00:15:11.439 --> 00:15:13.899 And so I want to go to the kingdom of darkness now. 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:15.559 Um, 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:17.379 There is a kingdom, 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:18.139 Uh, 00:15:18.139 --> 00:15:18.500 Ruled, 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:19.460 Uh, 00:15:19.460 --> 00:15:20.159 By a demon, 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:21.460 Who is titled Satan. 00:15:21.460 --> 00:15:22.580 Uh, 00:15:22.580 --> 00:15:23.280 He is the, 00:15:23.280 --> 00:15:25.540 The demon's chief and head. 00:15:25.540 --> 00:15:26.220 Uh, 00:15:27.420 --> 00:15:30.320 He to us is the adversary and the accuser. 00:15:30.740 --> 00:15:31.220 Uh, 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:31.940 He is their head, 00:15:32.019 --> 00:15:32.580 But to us, 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:34.560 He is the adversary and the accuser. 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:36.080 Uh, 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:37.379 He tempted our first mother, 00:15:37.800 --> 00:15:38.080 Eve, 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:40.120 Twisting the words of God. 00:15:41.060 --> 00:15:41.580 Uh, 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:44.100 As the good order, 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:46.000 The goodness of God, 00:15:46.580 --> 00:15:47.700 Creating good order, 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:48.639 Uh, 00:15:48.860 --> 00:15:51.300 He plunged it into chaos and rebellion. 00:15:51.460 --> 00:15:53.220 Uh, 00:15:53.220 --> 00:15:53.860 The king, 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:54.280 Uh, 00:15:54.280 --> 00:15:56.360 The king of the kingdom of darkness, 00:15:56.560 --> 00:15:56.860 Satan, 00:15:57.540 --> 00:15:59.320 Is opposed to the king, 00:15:59.900 --> 00:16:01.180 And the kingdom of light. 00:16:02.460 --> 00:16:03.019 Right? 00:16:03.740 --> 00:16:06.560 And just before Jesus started his earthly ministry, 00:16:07.139 --> 00:16:07.440 Uh, 00:16:07.680 --> 00:16:10.220 He was tempted by Jesus, 00:16:10.280 --> 00:16:12.360 He was tempted by Satan three times. 00:16:12.800 --> 00:16:13.320 Right? 00:16:14.100 --> 00:16:14.600 Um, 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.920 I'll read it really quickly. 00:16:17.920 --> 00:16:18.519 Uh, 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:19.659 Then Jesus being led, 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:19.920 uh, 00:16:19.920 --> 00:16:21.759 Led by the spirit into the wilderness, 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:23.740 To be tempted by the devil, 00:16:23.740 --> 00:16:24.560 Uh, 00:16:24.560 --> 00:16:27.120 After he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:28.440 Uh, 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:29.139 He was hungry, 00:16:29.139 --> 00:16:31.039 And the tempter approached him and said, 00:16:31.379 --> 00:16:32.620 If you are the son of God, 00:16:32.659 --> 00:16:34.360 Then tell these stones to become bread. 00:16:35.100 --> 00:16:35.919 And he answered, 00:16:36.019 --> 00:16:36.480 It is written, 00:16:37.019 --> 00:16:38.519 Man must not live on bread alone, 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.939 But on every word that comes from the mouth of God. 00:16:42.580 --> 00:16:44.419 Then the devil took him to the holy city, 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:46.539 Had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, 00:16:46.620 --> 00:16:47.039 And said to him, 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:48.559 If you are the son of God, 00:16:49.220 --> 00:16:49.960 Throw yourself down. 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:50.559 For it is written, 00:16:50.899 --> 00:16:54.000 He will give his angels waters concerning you, 00:16:54.139 --> 00:16:56.139 And they will support you with their hands, 00:16:56.139 --> 00:16:58.799 So that you will not strike your foot against the stone. 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:00.259 Jesus told him, 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:01.000 It is written, 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.559 Do not test the Lord your God. 00:17:04.779 --> 00:17:05.180 Again, 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:07.460 The devil took him to a very high mountain, 00:17:07.539 --> 00:17:09.639 And showed him all the kingdoms of the world, 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:10.900 And their splendor. 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:13.059 And he answered to them, 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:14.480 Uh, 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:15.119 And he said to him, 00:17:15.180 --> 00:17:16.559 I will give you all these things, 00:17:16.579 --> 00:17:18.960 If you will fall down and worship me. 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:20.980 Then Jesus told him, 00:17:21.059 --> 00:17:22.079 Go away from me, 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:22.359 Satan, 00:17:22.700 --> 00:17:23.319 For it is written, 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:25.420 Worship the Lord your God, 00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:27.480 And serve him only. 00:17:28.539 --> 00:17:29.960 Then the devil left him, 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:31.100 And the angels, 00:17:31.600 --> 00:17:32.160 Uh, 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:33.600 Came and began to serve him. 00:17:34.740 --> 00:17:35.259 Right? 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:36.640 Uh, 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:37.980 In all of this, 00:17:39.080 --> 00:17:39.700 Satan is, 00:17:39.740 --> 00:17:42.820 Is ruling this demonic oppression, 00:17:42.820 --> 00:17:44.080 And is actively, 00:17:44.080 --> 00:17:47.100 Fighting against the kingdom of light. 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:48.220 Right? 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:50.920 He even goes so far to get the king, 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.220 The king of light, 00:17:52.420 --> 00:17:53.880 To bow down to darkness. 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:55.560 Right? 00:17:57.960 --> 00:17:58.480 Guys, 00:17:58.600 --> 00:17:59.140 Satan is, 00:17:59.260 --> 00:17:59.800 Is, 00:17:59.960 --> 00:18:01.400 Is really mighty. 00:18:02.100 --> 00:18:02.660 He is, 00:18:02.740 --> 00:18:03.940 He is created by the Lord. 00:18:04.080 --> 00:18:04.860 He is strong. 00:18:06.020 --> 00:18:06.420 Um, 00:18:06.660 --> 00:18:07.420 And Jesus, 00:18:08.060 --> 00:18:08.320 Uh, 00:18:08.320 --> 00:18:09.640 In his humanity, 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:10.800 Right? 00:18:11.120 --> 00:18:12.200 In his human form, 00:18:12.420 --> 00:18:13.480 Rejects him, 00:18:13.740 --> 00:18:15.300 By the word of God. 00:18:17.340 --> 00:18:19.080 In this kingdom of darkness, 00:18:19.580 --> 00:18:19.840 Uh, 00:18:19.840 --> 00:18:20.940 There is no mercy. 00:18:20.940 --> 00:18:23.580 There is no goodness to be found. 00:18:24.299 --> 00:18:24.539 Uh, 00:18:24.539 --> 00:18:26.240 There's death and destruction, 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:26.680 Uh, 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:30.080 And a selfishness found only for Satan. 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:32.559 Bow down and worship me. 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:34.640 Uh, 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:36.900 And a twisting of what God has created, 00:18:36.900 --> 00:18:39.779 As he twisted our first parents. 00:18:39.779 --> 00:18:40.779 Uh, 00:18:40.779 --> 00:18:42.000 Uh, 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:43.500 As our father, 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:44.480 Uh, 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:45.119 Is a father. 00:18:45.700 --> 00:18:46.299 Uh, 00:18:46.339 --> 00:18:48.119 As our king is a king. 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:50.079 So Satan is a king, 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:51.799 And so Satan is a father. 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:54.559 Um, 00:18:54.819 --> 00:18:57.819 Jesus talking to the Pharisees, 00:18:57.819 --> 00:18:58.440 Uh, 00:18:58.440 --> 00:18:58.799 Again, 00:18:59.160 --> 00:18:59.460 Uh, 00:18:59.460 --> 00:18:59.940 Said to them, 00:18:59.940 --> 00:19:00.340 If, 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:01.940 If God were your father, 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:03.019 You would love me. 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:04.680 Um, 00:19:05.080 --> 00:19:07.920 Because I came from God, 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:08.580 And I am here. 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:10.120 For I didn't come on my own, 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:11.200 But he sent me. 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:12.700 Uh, 00:19:12.700 --> 00:19:14.320 Why don't you understand what I say? 00:19:14.380 --> 00:19:16.299 Because you cannot listen to my words. 00:19:16.940 --> 00:19:19.080 You are of your father, 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:19.900 The devil. 00:19:20.580 --> 00:19:23.140 And you want to carry out your father's desires. 00:19:25.460 --> 00:19:25.900 Uh, 00:19:26.080 --> 00:19:26.700 Satan, 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:28.180 Father's son. 00:19:28.180 --> 00:19:29.560 Like, 00:19:30.660 --> 00:19:31.920 A father has sons. 00:19:32.019 --> 00:19:32.220 Like, 00:19:32.420 --> 00:19:34.700 To be called a father without sons is like, 00:19:35.100 --> 00:19:35.960 An oxymoron. 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:37.320 Uh, 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:39.220 Satan has sons then, 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:40.680 And he still has sons now. 00:19:41.460 --> 00:19:42.019 Right? 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:43.400 That's sons and daughters. 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:44.779 Right? 00:19:45.259 --> 00:19:45.580 Uh, 00:19:45.580 --> 00:19:47.440 And it's not just demons, 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:48.380 Uh, 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:50.019 That he is the head over. 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:50.920 Uh, 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:52.340 He is given dominion 00:19:52.340 --> 00:19:54.960 Over this world right now. 00:19:55.080 --> 00:19:56.720 This present darkness. 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:58.279 Um, 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:02.440 So he is king, 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:03.920 The kingdom of darkness. 00:20:04.059 --> 00:20:06.160 He is father over the kingdom of darkness. 00:20:06.600 --> 00:20:07.200 Uh, 00:20:07.259 --> 00:20:08.240 And to us, 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:10.480 He's also a roaring lion. 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:11.980 Um, 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:12.460 Uh, 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:15.019 First Peter, 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:15.559 Uh, 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:15.920 Five, 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:16.839 Verse eight and nine. 00:20:17.500 --> 00:20:18.440 Be sober minded. 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:19.259 Be alert. 00:20:20.259 --> 00:20:20.720 Uh, 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:21.579 Your adversary, 00:20:21.740 --> 00:20:22.259 The devil, 00:20:22.579 --> 00:20:25.819 Is prowling around like a roaring lion. 00:20:25.819 --> 00:20:28.579 Looking for anyone he can devour. 00:20:29.659 --> 00:20:30.480 Resist him. 00:20:31.460 --> 00:20:32.319 Firm in the faith. 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:35.359 Knowing that the same kind of sufferings 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:38.460 Are being experienced by your fellow believers 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:39.279 Throughout the world. 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:43.799 And it's really this verse that I want to transition into 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:44.779 My next point, 00:20:44.859 --> 00:20:48.200 Which is radical allegiance to a kingdom. 00:20:49.339 --> 00:20:49.819 Right? 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:50.819 Uh, 00:20:50.819 --> 00:20:52.099 So we have the kingdom of light, 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:53.420 Kingdom of God, 00:20:53.779 --> 00:20:54.740 And the kingdom of Satan. 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:56.740 There are two kingdoms, 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:57.619 Uh, 00:20:57.619 --> 00:20:58.579 Truly in this world. 00:20:58.980 --> 00:21:00.319 Both are invisible. 00:21:01.700 --> 00:21:02.779 I can't see them. 00:21:02.879 --> 00:21:03.500 I don't know if you got, 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:05.339 Elijah could see it. 00:21:05.339 --> 00:21:06.699 Um, 00:21:07.339 --> 00:21:09.879 But radical allegiance to a kingdom. 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:11.279 Uh, 00:21:11.299 --> 00:21:12.259 D.A. Carson said, 00:21:12.779 --> 00:21:13.039 Uh, 00:21:13.059 --> 00:21:15.259 People do not drift towards holiness. 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:16.699 Right? 00:21:17.299 --> 00:21:19.139 Apart from grace-driven effort, 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:23.459 People do not gravitate towards godliness, 00:21:24.159 --> 00:21:24.579 Prayer, 00:21:25.179 --> 00:21:26.399 Obedience to scripture, 00:21:26.959 --> 00:21:27.339 Faith, 00:21:27.659 --> 00:21:28.799 And delight in the Lord. 00:21:29.439 --> 00:21:32.019 We drift towards compromise, 00:21:32.019 --> 00:21:33.539 And call it tolerance. 00:21:33.539 --> 00:21:36.680 We drift towards disobedience, 00:21:36.859 --> 00:21:37.680 And call it freedom. 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:41.480 We drift towards superstitions, 00:21:41.779 --> 00:21:42.940 And call it faith. 00:21:44.159 --> 00:21:49.119 We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control, 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:50.819 Call it relaxation. 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:55.180 We slouch towards prayerlessness, 00:21:55.460 --> 00:21:59.359 And delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism. 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:03.359 We slide towards godlessness, 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:07.119 And convince ourselves we have been liberated. 00:22:08.139 --> 00:22:08.699 Right? 00:22:10.179 --> 00:22:10.859 Uh, 00:22:11.019 --> 00:22:12.659 And really it's that first thing, 00:22:13.059 --> 00:22:15.740 People do not drift towards holiness. 00:22:16.579 --> 00:22:19.219 No one falls into holiness. 00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:20.140 Uh, 00:22:20.140 --> 00:22:21.460 Really, 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:22.539 Um, 00:22:23.819 --> 00:22:26.420 In this, 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:27.759 There, 00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:28.220 There's, 00:22:28.299 --> 00:22:31.100 There's only two kingdoms that you can really choose, 00:22:31.100 --> 00:22:32.079 Uh, 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:32.279 And, 00:22:32.380 --> 00:22:34.360 And there's no way to be a bystander. 00:22:35.500 --> 00:22:37.579 There are no bystanders in this world. 00:22:38.860 --> 00:22:39.380 Right? 00:22:39.380 --> 00:22:41.660 You are either, 00:22:41.660 --> 00:22:42.560 Uh, 00:22:42.560 --> 00:22:44.400 Drifting towards one, 00:22:45.500 --> 00:22:46.740 The kingdom of darkness, 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:47.600 Or, 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:49.980 The kingdom of, 00:22:49.980 --> 00:22:50.820 Of light, 00:22:51.520 --> 00:22:52.420 Of God's kingdom. 00:22:53.100 --> 00:22:54.180 Both are invisible. 00:22:55.060 --> 00:22:56.080 Both cannot be seen. 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.199 Um, 00:23:00.439 --> 00:23:03.000 And, 00:23:03.099 --> 00:23:03.879 And in this, 00:23:03.980 --> 00:23:04.859 In this world, 00:23:05.259 --> 00:23:05.659 Uh, 00:23:05.939 --> 00:23:08.419 Of, 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:09.579 Of such sadness, 00:23:09.579 --> 00:23:10.240 Uh, 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:11.379 And just depravity, 00:23:11.879 --> 00:23:12.559 Uh, 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:15.539 We see how the kingdom of darkness manifests. 00:23:16.059 --> 00:23:16.339 Right? 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:17.960 Uh, 00:23:18.019 --> 00:23:19.559 In seeing a brother, 00:23:20.199 --> 00:23:20.699 Which is, 00:23:21.639 --> 00:23:21.919 Carl, 00:23:22.099 --> 00:23:23.559 Charlie Kirk being shot. 00:23:24.199 --> 00:23:24.759 Right? 00:23:24.899 --> 00:23:25.139 Being, 00:23:25.139 --> 00:23:25.879 Being marmer. 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:26.980 Being assassinated. 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:28.759 Um, 00:23:29.199 --> 00:23:31.559 When, 00:23:31.639 --> 00:23:32.740 When I first heard that, 00:23:33.259 --> 00:23:33.539 Right? 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:33.980 I, 00:23:34.199 --> 00:23:34.379 Like, 00:23:34.419 --> 00:23:35.839 The first thing I thought of was, 00:23:35.939 --> 00:23:36.720 I need to fight. 00:23:38.299 --> 00:23:39.159 I need to, 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:40.220 Fight. 00:23:40.939 --> 00:23:42.359 I need to get out there, 00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:43.179 Do something. 00:23:45.939 --> 00:23:46.419 Uh, 00:23:46.859 --> 00:23:48.299 Like, 00:23:48.679 --> 00:23:48.879 That, 00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:50.339 My reaction was action. 00:23:51.059 --> 00:23:52.079 I needed to, 00:23:52.679 --> 00:23:53.619 Do something. 00:23:53.699 --> 00:23:54.980 Because if I don't do something, 00:23:54.980 --> 00:23:56.259 He dies in vain. 00:23:57.259 --> 00:23:58.720 I don't want him to die in vain. 00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:01.019 I hardly knew him. 00:24:02.819 --> 00:24:04.059 Only seen his videos, 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:04.339 Right? 00:24:05.079 --> 00:24:06.819 How am I so impacted by, 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:09.079 By someone's death that I hardly know? 00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:12.000 And then talking to another brother, 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:13.500 Uh, 00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:14.019 He's like, 00:24:14.220 --> 00:24:15.220 I felt the same way. 00:24:15.220 --> 00:24:17.579 Felt like I had to go, 00:24:17.900 --> 00:24:18.160 And, 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:19.160 And take action, 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:20.039 And do something, 00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:21.200 And fight. 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:24.279 Fight what? 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:29.839 Right? 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:29.920 Right? 00:24:30.460 --> 00:24:30.779 Uh, 00:24:30.779 --> 00:24:32.519 Uh, 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:34.700 There should be deep sadness, 00:24:35.220 --> 00:24:36.799 For a murder. 00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:39.139 There should be deep sadness, 00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:40.680 Uh, 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:41.599 For losing a brother. 00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:43.339 But, 00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:46.599 In thinking of the kingdom of darkness, 00:24:46.859 --> 00:24:47.859 And the kingdom of, 00:24:47.940 --> 00:24:48.599 Of light, 00:24:48.980 --> 00:24:51.220 There should not be the sadness, 00:24:51.460 --> 00:24:53.200 Over political loss. 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:57.400 Because, 00:24:57.900 --> 00:24:59.319 We should be fine-tuned, 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:01.140 To the kingdom of light. 00:25:02.220 --> 00:25:02.819 Is that where, 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:04.160 Is that where our minds are at? 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:06.920 Uh, 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:07.720 In saying that, 00:25:07.840 --> 00:25:08.600 This does not mean, 00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:10.220 We don't fight for what is, 00:25:10.620 --> 00:25:10.900 Uh, 00:25:11.100 --> 00:25:11.440 Good, 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:12.279 Beautiful, 00:25:12.420 --> 00:25:12.900 And true. 00:25:13.600 --> 00:25:15.039 As Charlie Kirk fought for. 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:18.880 It means that we do not get caught up, 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:20.620 In civilian affairs. 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:21.700 Right? 00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:22.840 We pray. 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:24.519 Um, 00:25:25.360 --> 00:25:27.819 But, 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:28.080 Paul, 00:25:28.120 --> 00:25:28.759 Paul says, 00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:29.500 Uh, 00:25:29.539 --> 00:25:29.779 In, 00:25:29.860 --> 00:25:30.140 In, 00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:31.200 In 2nd Corinthians, 00:25:32.100 --> 00:25:34.400 For although we live in the flesh, 00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:38.000 We do not wage war according to the flesh. 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:41.039 As I was wanting to do. 00:25:42.340 --> 00:25:44.580 Since the weapons of our warfare, 00:25:44.580 --> 00:25:46.279 Are not of the flesh, 00:25:46.799 --> 00:25:48.279 But are powerful, 00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:50.519 Through God, 00:25:51.180 --> 00:25:51.500 Uh, 00:25:51.500 --> 00:25:52.299 Through God, 00:25:52.299 --> 00:25:52.299 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:55.460 For the demolition of strongholds, 00:25:55.460 --> 00:25:57.299 We demolish arguments, 00:25:58.099 --> 00:25:59.779 And every proud thing, 00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:03.480 That is raised up against the knowledge of God. 00:26:03.859 --> 00:26:07.140 And we take every thought captive to obey Christ. 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.440 And we are ready to punish any disobedience, 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:14.640 Once your obedience is complete. 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:15.079 Right? 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:15.579 Uh, 00:26:15.579 --> 00:26:17.139 In this, 00:26:17.779 --> 00:26:18.619 Paul is saying that, 00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:19.179 That our, 00:26:19.220 --> 00:26:20.659 Our call is not to wage, 00:26:21.179 --> 00:26:22.839 Wage war according to the flesh. 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:24.279 Right? 00:26:24.679 --> 00:26:26.539 That is not what we're called to do. 00:26:26.539 --> 00:26:27.039 In my, 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:29.119 In my anger, 00:26:29.339 --> 00:26:30.059 In my wanting, 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:31.579 In my wanting to fight, 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:32.440 Fight, 00:26:32.539 --> 00:26:32.740 Fight, 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:33.079 Fight, 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:34.079 Uh, 00:26:34.139 --> 00:26:34.460 Which, 00:26:34.700 --> 00:26:36.139 Which I think is, 00:26:36.220 --> 00:26:38.420 Is good in what men are created to do, 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.319 Which is protect, 00:26:39.579 --> 00:26:40.460 And defend. 00:26:40.460 --> 00:26:43.559 Though in this kingdom of light, 00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:46.319 We are not to wage war according to the flesh. 00:26:47.539 --> 00:26:48.900 Since our weapons, 00:26:48.900 --> 00:26:50.259 Uh, 00:26:50.259 --> 00:26:52.000 Of warfare are not of the flesh. 00:26:52.259 --> 00:26:52.740 Right? 00:26:53.420 --> 00:26:53.759 Uh, 00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:53.980 And, 00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:55.660 And we find what our weapons, 00:26:55.660 --> 00:26:56.140 Uh, 00:26:56.140 --> 00:26:57.099 Of warfare are, 00:26:57.099 --> 00:26:58.039 Uh, 00:26:58.079 --> 00:26:58.420 In, 00:26:58.559 --> 00:26:59.819 In Ephesians 6. 00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:02.079 Paul says, 00:27:02.140 --> 00:27:03.599 Finally be strengthened by the Lord, 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:04.839 And by his vast strength. 00:27:05.500 --> 00:27:07.539 Put on the full armor of God, 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:09.180 So that you can stand, 00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:11.279 Against the schemes of the devil. 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:14.759 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:16.460 But against the rulers, 00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:18.599 Against the authorities, 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.339 Against the cosmic powers of this darkness. 00:27:22.339 --> 00:27:23.619 Against evil, 00:27:24.379 --> 00:27:26.240 Spiritual forces in the heavens. 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:28.319 For this reason, 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:30.779 Take up the full armor of God, 00:27:31.099 --> 00:27:33.720 So that you may be able to resist, 00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:35.139 In the day of evil, 00:27:35.259 --> 00:27:38.459 Having prepared everything to take your stand. 00:27:39.419 --> 00:27:40.019 Right? 00:27:40.740 --> 00:27:41.079 What, 00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:41.539 What, 00:27:41.859 --> 00:27:42.220 Like, 00:27:43.339 --> 00:27:44.699 In, 00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:45.779 In those two verses, 00:27:46.179 --> 00:27:46.459 Uh, 00:27:46.459 --> 00:27:46.759 Really, 00:27:46.899 --> 00:27:47.039 We're, 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:49.959 We're not to fight against flesh and blood. 00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:52.319 That is not where our fight is. 00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:52.619 Is that? 00:27:53.619 --> 00:27:55.019 Our fight is against, 00:27:55.019 --> 00:27:58.480 The cosmic powers of this darkness. 00:27:59.119 --> 00:27:59.319 Right? 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:01.980 Paul specifically says, 00:28:02.459 --> 00:28:04.339 So that you may be able to resist, 00:28:04.500 --> 00:28:05.399 In the evil day. 00:28:06.579 --> 00:28:07.839 All the days are evil. 00:28:08.899 --> 00:28:09.579 Or says, 00:28:09.679 --> 00:28:10.959 The days are evil. 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:11.819 Plural. 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:13.279 All of the days are evil. 00:28:13.639 --> 00:28:14.359 That we live in. 00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:16.539 Um, 00:28:16.539 --> 00:28:18.419 And so, 00:28:18.479 --> 00:28:18.639 What, 00:28:18.639 --> 00:28:19.559 What do you stand for? 00:28:20.679 --> 00:28:21.079 Right? 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:22.319 Uh, 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:22.599 It says, 00:28:22.679 --> 00:28:24.899 Having prepared everything to take your stand. 00:28:25.379 --> 00:28:25.759 And he says, 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:26.059 Therefore, 00:28:26.219 --> 00:28:26.539 Stand. 00:28:26.979 --> 00:28:28.159 What do you stand for? 00:28:28.479 --> 00:28:28.719 Uh, 00:28:28.719 --> 00:28:28.939 In, 00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:30.159 In Hamilton, 00:28:30.459 --> 00:28:31.019 The play, 00:28:31.379 --> 00:28:32.539 It's one of my favorite plays. 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:33.740 Uh, 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:35.500 Hamilton's talking to, 00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:36.139 Uh, 00:28:36.219 --> 00:28:36.939 Aaron Burr. 00:28:36.940 --> 00:28:38.140 And Aaron, 00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:39.059 Aaron is, 00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:39.400 Is, 00:28:39.620 --> 00:28:40.660 Is saying like, 00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:41.480 Hey, 00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:42.880 He's like, 00:28:43.080 --> 00:28:43.400 Really? 00:28:43.539 --> 00:28:43.820 I don't, 00:28:43.900 --> 00:28:46.620 I don't try to give anyone my opinion or anything like that. 00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:47.180 I don't, 00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:47.920 I don't, 00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:48.360 Like, 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:49.120 I stay quiet, 00:28:49.660 --> 00:28:50.519 Keep my head down, 00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:51.480 And I plot on, 00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:51.759 Right? 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:53.839 And then, 00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:54.519 Uh, 00:28:54.519 --> 00:28:55.839 Alexander Hamilton says, 00:28:56.359 --> 00:28:58.339 You stand for nothing. 00:28:58.619 --> 00:28:59.639 What will you fall for? 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:01.680 Right? 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:04.960 Um, 00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:07.440 And what Paul is telling us to stand for, 00:29:08.099 --> 00:29:08.440 Is, 00:29:08.579 --> 00:29:09.400 To stand, 00:29:09.539 --> 00:29:11.859 Putting on the full armor of God. 00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:15.200 And to take our stand with it. 00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:18.039 And we are waging war, 00:29:18.299 --> 00:29:19.660 Not against flesh and blood, 00:29:19.660 --> 00:29:20.840 But against, 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:23.460 The cosmic powers. 00:29:24.519 --> 00:29:25.960 Against our own flesh, 00:29:26.380 --> 00:29:27.380 Our own temptations. 00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:30.779 Our obedience to God, 00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:31.640 Is, 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:33.000 So pleasing to him. 00:29:34.080 --> 00:29:36.120 What is not pleasing to God, 00:29:36.420 --> 00:29:38.360 Is going out and taking vengeance. 00:29:40.580 --> 00:29:42.380 What is pleasing to God, 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:44.980 Is looking to his son, 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:46.580 And pleading for help. 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:49.000 Pleading, 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:49.480 Lord, 00:29:49.660 --> 00:29:50.680 Help this country. 00:29:54.519 --> 00:29:54.860 Um, 00:29:54.860 --> 00:29:55.420 Um, 00:29:55.420 --> 00:29:56.920 I, 00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:59.880 I love the story, 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:00.560 Of Shadrach, 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:00.980 Meshach, 00:30:01.060 --> 00:30:01.519 And Abednego, 00:30:01.660 --> 00:30:02.080 And Daniel, 00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:02.500 Uh, 00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:04.060 It is the story of how I've saved, 00:30:04.600 --> 00:30:05.700 Reading that story. 00:30:06.779 --> 00:30:07.180 Uh, 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:09.779 They're forced to bow down, 00:30:09.779 --> 00:30:10.460 Uh, 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:11.660 To, 00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:13.480 A king, 00:30:13.580 --> 00:30:14.380 King Nebuchadnezzar, 00:30:14.380 --> 00:30:17.220 Builds this giant golden statue. 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:19.080 If you do not bow down, 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:21.980 When all the musical instruments go off, 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:24.180 Then you will be killed. 00:30:25.280 --> 00:30:26.580 They do not bow down, 00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:28.440 They're brought before the king, 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:30.140 The king, 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:31.020 Says, 00:30:31.019 --> 00:30:32.839 Why don't you bow down, 00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:32.839 00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:35.700 It's because we worship Yahweh, 00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:38.119 And you can do with us, 00:30:38.180 --> 00:30:38.819 What you will, 00:30:38.879 --> 00:30:39.879 But we worship Yahweh. 00:30:39.879 --> 00:30:40.220 Yeah. 00:30:40.220 --> 00:30:40.599 Yeah. 00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:44.240 And then there, 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:44.659 There's, 00:30:45.099 --> 00:30:46.219 There's this phrase that he says, 00:30:46.299 --> 00:30:48.119 Our God can save us, 00:30:48.339 --> 00:30:49.500 And he will save us, 00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:50.679 But even if he doesn't, 00:30:51.879 --> 00:30:53.079 He is Yahweh. 00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:54.839 Right? 00:30:55.199 --> 00:30:57.279 The trust and dependence of God, 00:30:57.379 --> 00:30:59.119 That when they are thrown into the fire, 00:30:59.459 --> 00:31:00.159 There's not three, 00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:01.919 But a fourth that dwells with them, 00:31:02.159 --> 00:31:02.919 In the protection, 00:31:03.419 --> 00:31:05.299 Even against political forces, 00:31:06.299 --> 00:31:08.740 That seek to destroy and kill. 00:31:08.740 --> 00:31:17.579 I don't want you guys to be unaware, 00:31:18.299 --> 00:31:19.299 And even jarred, 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:21.720 That Christians would be killed, 00:31:21.940 --> 00:31:22.700 And even martyred. 00:31:23.339 --> 00:31:23.519 Right? 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:26.259 If it is your resolve, 00:31:26.339 --> 00:31:26.519 Right? 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:28.859 To stand and fight, 00:31:30.380 --> 00:31:33.819 Then you should go and also fight around the world. 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:37.579 Let me give you some stories, 00:31:37.579 --> 00:31:38.960 Of some martyrs around the world. 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:42.480 Kandi Mundu, 00:31:43.679 --> 00:31:44.919 India. 00:31:46.399 --> 00:31:47.460 Kandi was killed, 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:49.460 For his Christian faith, 00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:51.299 Following a rise, 00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:53.740 In anti-convert violence, 00:31:54.299 --> 00:31:56.240 Targeting rural evangelists. 00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:58.220 He's preaching the gospel, 00:31:58.460 --> 00:31:59.339 To rural people. 00:31:59.339 --> 00:32:03.839 And officials confirmed, 00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:04.619 That he was murdered, 00:32:04.619 --> 00:32:06.299 By radical Hindu mob. 00:32:06.899 --> 00:32:09.059 After leading his family to faith, 00:32:09.959 --> 00:32:12.019 He refused to renounce Christ. 00:32:13.619 --> 00:32:14.899 He was martyred. 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:18.079 Pastor Barnabas in Nigeria. 00:32:19.439 --> 00:32:20.899 Barnabas was gunned down, 00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:22.539 During Sunday worship, 00:32:22.539 --> 00:32:26.480 A survivor stating, 00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:27.759 That he interposed himself, 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:29.480 Between attackers and families. 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.440 Praying for peace, 00:32:31.460 --> 00:32:32.099 As he died. 00:32:35.059 --> 00:32:36.500 This was done, 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:38.079 By Fulani militants, 00:32:38.659 --> 00:32:39.099 In Nigeria. 00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:41.359 Pastor Daniel, 00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:42.259 In Cameroon. 00:32:43.259 --> 00:32:44.319 He was killed, 00:32:44.420 --> 00:32:46.240 By coordinated attack, 00:32:46.639 --> 00:32:47.639 By Boko Haram, 00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:49.880 Ambushing aid workers, 00:32:50.040 --> 00:32:50.680 And church leaders. 00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:53.340 Witnesses recount, 00:32:53.560 --> 00:32:55.100 Militants demanding, 00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:57.020 Him to convert to Islam. 00:32:58.080 --> 00:32:59.280 And Daniel refused. 00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:01.200 And he was executed, 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:01.820 On the spot. 00:33:03.780 --> 00:33:04.320 Jamal, 00:33:04.560 --> 00:33:05.259 From Ethiopia. 00:33:07.740 --> 00:33:09.200 Extremists raided his home, 00:33:09.360 --> 00:33:11.060 Demanding to renounce Christianity. 00:33:11.780 --> 00:33:12.900 He refused, 00:33:12.980 --> 00:33:13.480 And was killed, 00:33:13.560 --> 00:33:14.360 In front of his children. 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:17.440 Layla, 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:18.140 In Iran. 00:33:19.320 --> 00:33:20.420 Layla was leading, 00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:21.040 Um, 00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:23.040 Underground churches, 00:33:23.620 --> 00:33:24.500 And was arrested, 00:33:24.940 --> 00:33:26.160 In a government raid, 00:33:26.580 --> 00:33:27.640 And she was tortured, 00:33:28.280 --> 00:33:29.080 In prison, 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:30.500 Uh, 00:33:30.740 --> 00:33:32.320 Refusing to give up names, 00:33:32.420 --> 00:33:33.200 Of fellow believers. 00:33:34.020 --> 00:33:35.020 She died in prison. 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:37.040 Samuel, 00:33:37.340 --> 00:33:37.860 In Nigeria. 00:33:39.320 --> 00:33:40.640 He was abducted, 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:41.500 With his wife. 00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:42.940 After refusing, 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:44.340 To renounce Christianity, 00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:46.080 He was shot, 00:33:46.180 --> 00:33:46.860 By his captors. 00:33:46.859 --> 00:33:47.359 Uh, 00:33:49.199 --> 00:33:49.559 Esther, 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:50.319 In, 00:33:50.399 --> 00:33:50.959 In Laos. 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:52.799 Age 16. 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:54.259 Uh, 00:33:54.259 --> 00:33:54.979 She was poisoned, 00:33:55.299 --> 00:33:56.079 By her relatives, 00:33:56.579 --> 00:33:57.319 By her relatives, 00:33:57.779 --> 00:33:58.139 Uh, 00:33:58.139 --> 00:33:58.899 For refusing, 00:33:59.699 --> 00:33:59.879 Uh, 00:33:59.879 --> 00:34:00.839 To participate, 00:34:01.059 --> 00:34:01.279 In, 00:34:01.639 --> 00:34:01.879 Uh, 00:34:01.879 --> 00:34:02.779 Animal rituals, 00:34:02.879 --> 00:34:04.079 After her conversions. 00:34:04.579 --> 00:34:05.679 Uh, 00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:06.240 Musa, 00:34:06.639 --> 00:34:07.559 In North Africa, 00:34:07.979 --> 00:34:09.159 A five-year-old child, 00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:10.299 Was killed, 00:34:10.299 --> 00:34:11.639 Was killed by his neighbors, 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:13.559 For his family's faith. 00:34:14.839 --> 00:34:15.359 Joseph, 00:34:16.259 --> 00:34:18.179 DRC, 00:34:19.659 --> 00:34:20.039 Uh, 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:22.000 Joseph was a prayer leader, 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:23.239 And was slain, 00:34:23.299 --> 00:34:24.399 During a major attack, 00:34:24.500 --> 00:34:26.000 Where over a hundred Christians, 00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:27.319 Were massacred, 00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:28.800 By Islamist extremists. 00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:31.600 Guys, 00:34:32.380 --> 00:34:34.160 Guess when this happened? 00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:36.400 This year! 00:34:37.539 --> 00:34:39.360 All of these happened this year. 00:34:40.240 --> 00:34:42.940 This is not going back to some random date. 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:44.280 This happened this year. 00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:47.960 And there are thousands more that happened. 00:34:50.680 --> 00:34:53.500 Christians are being martyred around the world. 00:34:54.980 --> 00:34:56.800 To bear arms here, 00:34:57.220 --> 00:34:58.519 Go and bear arms everywhere. 00:34:58.860 --> 00:35:00.580 But that is not what we're called to. 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:04.880 We are called to be faithful to the kingdom of light, 00:35:04.940 --> 00:35:06.380 And to the king himself. 00:35:07.660 --> 00:35:09.320 He is our father. 00:35:09.720 --> 00:35:11.480 We are following after him. 00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:14.480 Um, 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:16.619 And again, 00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:17.159 In this, 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:18.699 In this world of two kingdoms, 00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:20.260 There is no bystanders. 00:35:20.539 --> 00:35:22.240 There's no standing on the sidelines. 00:35:22.539 --> 00:35:24.240 You're either for one or the other. 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:28.519 Um, 00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.519 And, 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:31.800 And if you would think, 00:35:32.420 --> 00:35:32.780 Uh, 00:35:33.159 --> 00:35:33.460 You're, 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:33.760 You're, 00:35:33.860 --> 00:35:35.699 You're in the kingdom of light, 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:36.619 When in reality, 00:35:36.699 --> 00:35:37.699 You're actually damned. 00:35:38.659 --> 00:35:39.059 Um, 00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:40.380 There, 00:35:40.500 --> 00:35:41.460 There are many pastors, 00:35:41.460 --> 00:35:42.619 Uh, 00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:43.440 That I know of, 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:45.240 Prosperity gospel preachers even, 00:35:45.240 --> 00:35:46.659 Who, 00:35:46.720 --> 00:35:47.420 Who are damned. 00:35:48.179 --> 00:35:48.659 Yet, 00:35:48.720 --> 00:35:50.480 Believing they're in the kingdom of light. 00:35:50.780 --> 00:35:53.720 There are many people who are in the kingdom of darkness, 00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:54.820 But believing that, 00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:56.960 You can do good things to get to heaven, 00:35:57.460 --> 00:35:58.179 Will be damned. 00:35:59.179 --> 00:36:01.139 There's gray and confusion around there, 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:03.740 But you are either of the kingdom of light, 00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:05.039 Or the kingdom of darkness. 00:36:05.139 --> 00:36:05.840 You cannot, 00:36:06.420 --> 00:36:07.240 Serve both. 00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:15.219 And there's only one way, 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:17.279 Into the kingdom of light. 00:36:19.500 --> 00:36:20.419 If that is, 00:36:20.659 --> 00:36:21.719 That is your desire. 00:36:22.579 --> 00:36:24.859 Some people actually desire the kingdom of darkness. 00:36:25.579 --> 00:36:26.379 Do you desire? 00:36:27.759 --> 00:36:29.219 Do you desire to repent, 00:36:29.219 --> 00:36:32.159 For the kingdom of God is at hand? 00:36:32.879 --> 00:36:34.119 Do you desire the kingdom of God, 00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:35.179 Or the kingdom of darkness? 00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:36.459 Do you love your sin? 00:36:36.959 --> 00:36:37.939 Do you coddle your sin? 00:36:39.139 --> 00:36:40.559 What's your heart like, 00:36:40.939 --> 00:36:42.839 Towards even these political situations? 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:45.240 Is your trust in God, 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:45.980 Or is it, 00:36:46.100 --> 00:36:47.800 Are you riddled with anxiety? 00:36:50.019 --> 00:36:50.280 Right? 00:36:50.780 --> 00:36:52.620 Is social media your go-to? 00:36:53.700 --> 00:36:54.180 Right? 00:36:54.380 --> 00:36:56.500 Are you just scrolling endlessly on TikTok, 00:36:56.760 --> 00:36:58.039 Or whatever, 00:36:58.680 --> 00:36:59.300 Is your go-to? 00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:00.380 Not on TikTok. 00:37:03.200 --> 00:37:06.620 And being filled with more and more anxious thoughts. 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.059 Is your trust and dependency on God? 00:37:09.059 --> 00:37:13.759 If persecution rises up even more than it is right now, 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:18.259 Is your trust and dependency on God? 00:37:18.900 --> 00:37:19.159 Right? 00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:22.639 You cannot serve both kingdoms. 00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:24.900 And so, 00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:25.880 With that, 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:28.539 I have a few application points, 00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:29.179 Just five. 00:37:32.539 --> 00:37:33.960 And then I will end. 00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:37.880 The first is a theology of risk. 00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:40.000 Do you have a theology of risk? 00:37:41.659 --> 00:37:42.380 If you would, 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:45.139 Turn with me to Matthew 25, 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:48.940 Verse 14 to 30. 00:37:48.940 --> 00:37:49.000 Okay. 00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:10.220 For it is just like a man, 00:38:10.539 --> 00:38:11.900 King of God, 00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:13.500 Sorry. 00:38:14.500 --> 00:38:17.019 For it is just like a man about to go on a journey. 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:19.240 He called his own servants, 00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:21.800 And entrusted to his possessions to them. 00:38:22.500 --> 00:38:23.900 To one he gave five talents, 00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:24.960 To another two, 00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:26.240 And to another one talent, 00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:29.059 Depending on each one's ability. 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:30.980 Then he went on a journey. 00:38:31.420 --> 00:38:31.860 Immediately, 00:38:31.860 --> 00:38:33.900 The man who received five talents, 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:34.840 Went, 00:38:35.240 --> 00:38:36.099 Put them to work, 00:38:36.240 --> 00:38:37.240 And earned five more. 00:38:37.780 --> 00:38:38.760 In the same way, 00:38:38.820 --> 00:38:39.760 The man with two, 00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:40.740 Earned two more. 00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:42.960 And the one who had one talent, 00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:43.519 Went off, 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:44.579 Dug a hole in the ground, 00:38:45.420 --> 00:38:46.559 And hid his master's money. 00:38:47.620 --> 00:38:48.640 After a long time, 00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:50.220 The master of those servants, 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:51.900 Came and settled accounts with them. 00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:54.019 The one man, 00:38:54.140 --> 00:38:55.400 Who had received five talents, 00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:55.940 Approached, 00:38:56.680 --> 00:38:57.860 Presented five more talents, 00:38:57.980 --> 00:38:58.220 And said, 00:38:58.300 --> 00:38:58.620 Master, 00:38:58.760 --> 00:38:59.700 You gave me five talents, 00:38:59.800 --> 00:38:59.960 See, 00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:01.579 I have earned five more. 00:39:02.860 --> 00:39:04.039 His master said to him, 00:39:04.120 --> 00:39:04.559 Well done, 00:39:04.660 --> 00:39:05.860 Good and faithful servant. 00:39:06.240 --> 00:39:07.900 You are faithful over a few things, 00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:10.320 I will put you in charge of many things, 00:39:10.500 --> 00:39:12.039 Share in your master's joy. 00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:14.220 The man with two talents, 00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:15.220 Also approached and said, 00:39:15.300 --> 00:39:15.599 Master, 00:39:15.820 --> 00:39:16.800 You gave me two talents. 00:39:18.220 --> 00:39:19.599 I see I have earned two more. 00:39:20.740 --> 00:39:21.760 His master said to him, 00:39:21.820 --> 00:39:22.380 Well done, 00:39:22.500 --> 00:39:23.700 Good and faithful servant. 00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:25.660 You are faithful over a few things, 00:39:26.180 --> 00:39:28.380 And I will put you in charge over many things, 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:30.059 Share in your master's joy. 00:39:30.059 --> 00:39:32.739 The one who had received one talent, 00:39:32.900 --> 00:39:34.199 Also approached and said, 00:39:34.279 --> 00:39:34.559 Master, 00:39:34.659 --> 00:39:37.039 I know you are a harsh man, 00:39:38.019 --> 00:39:39.219 Reaping where you haven't sown, 00:39:39.340 --> 00:39:41.019 And gathering where you haven't scattered seed. 00:39:41.579 --> 00:39:42.380 So I was afraid, 00:39:42.500 --> 00:39:44.179 And went off and hid your talents in the ground. 00:39:45.460 --> 00:39:45.860 See, 00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:47.559 You have what is yours. 00:39:47.759 --> 00:39:48.139 Here you go. 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:50.480 The master responded, 00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:53.099 You evil, 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:54.139 Lazy servant. 00:39:54.139 --> 00:39:57.039 If you knew, 00:39:57.039 --> 00:39:59.639 That I would reap where I haven't sown, 00:39:59.739 --> 00:40:01.159 Or gathered where I haven't scattered, 00:40:01.299 --> 00:40:03.099 Then you should have deposited my money, 00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:04.139 The bankers. 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:06.400 I would have received my money back, 00:40:06.460 --> 00:40:07.739 With interest when I returned. 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:10.359 So take the talents from, 00:40:10.859 --> 00:40:11.619 From him, 00:40:11.699 --> 00:40:13.599 And give it to the one who has ten talents, 00:40:14.279 --> 00:40:15.719 For to the one who has more, 00:40:15.779 --> 00:40:17.579 Will be given it to the one who has more, 00:40:18.179 --> 00:40:19.879 One who have more, 00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:20.699 More than enough. 00:40:20.699 --> 00:40:21.619 Sorry. 00:40:22.259 --> 00:40:22.859 And he will, 00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:26.199 But from the one who does not have, 00:40:26.279 --> 00:40:28.199 Even what he has will be taken from him. 00:40:28.779 --> 00:40:30.899 And throw this good for nothing servant, 00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:33.139 Into the utter darkness, 00:40:33.379 --> 00:40:34.399 Where there will be weeping, 00:40:34.799 --> 00:40:36.219 And gnashing of teeth. 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:37.779 You might think, 00:40:37.859 --> 00:40:39.019 That's a really weird passage, 00:40:39.259 --> 00:40:40.279 For theology of breath. 00:40:41.379 --> 00:40:42.279 But it's not. 00:40:45.819 --> 00:40:46.619 In that, 00:40:46.619 --> 00:40:49.019 The servant, 00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:51.319 Who takes his master's one talent, 00:40:52.059 --> 00:40:53.559 And hides it in the ground, 00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:56.699 Is a risk-averse servant. 00:40:57.699 --> 00:40:57.980 Right? 00:40:58.299 --> 00:40:59.679 He chooses to do nothing with it, 00:40:59.779 --> 00:41:00.960 Wanting to protect it. 00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:01.719 Right? 00:41:02.739 --> 00:41:04.420 And a risk-averse servant, 00:41:04.659 --> 00:41:05.400 Is condemned. 00:41:06.900 --> 00:41:07.159 Right? 00:41:07.980 --> 00:41:08.960 That is, 00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:11.480 Like Paul saying, 00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:14.359 God deposited into Timothy, 00:41:14.779 --> 00:41:15.659 A good deposit. 00:41:15.659 --> 00:41:16.299 Right? 00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:18.019 In that deposit of faith, 00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:18.759 Into all of us, 00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:19.779 What are we doing? 00:41:21.379 --> 00:41:21.859 Right? 00:41:22.500 --> 00:41:23.519 What are we doing, 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:25.500 With what God has given to us? 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:27.480 This, 00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:28.339 This faith, 00:41:29.420 --> 00:41:30.179 This possession, 00:41:30.319 --> 00:41:31.440 This seed of the gospel. 00:41:36.319 --> 00:41:38.179 God is faithful, 00:41:38.379 --> 00:41:39.379 And wants to reward, 00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:40.579 Those who are his. 00:41:41.259 --> 00:41:41.519 Right? 00:41:42.399 --> 00:41:43.359 Everlasting life, 00:41:43.460 --> 00:41:45.159 To those who are faithful. 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:46.139 Like James says, 00:41:46.539 --> 00:41:47.719 Faith without works, 00:41:47.839 --> 00:41:49.179 Is dead. 00:41:50.940 --> 00:41:52.039 What do your works, 00:41:52.219 --> 00:41:52.739 Look like? 00:41:53.059 --> 00:41:53.759 I'm not preaching, 00:41:53.879 --> 00:41:55.039 A works-based salvation, 00:41:55.539 --> 00:41:57.159 Because Christ is the only one, 00:41:57.219 --> 00:41:57.899 Who can save. 00:41:58.359 --> 00:41:58.920 But I'm saying, 00:41:59.019 --> 00:42:00.059 What are your works like? 00:42:00.579 --> 00:42:01.940 What are your fruits like? 00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:09.599 Number two, 00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:10.599 God's power, 00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:12.199 God's power, 00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:13.019 And strength, 00:42:14.279 --> 00:42:16.759 And really, 00:42:16.980 --> 00:42:17.360 This is, 00:42:17.579 --> 00:42:18.980 Whose strength and power, 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:20.119 Are you relying on? 00:42:21.059 --> 00:42:21.839 Are you relying on, 00:42:21.980 --> 00:42:22.860 God's strength, 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:24.400 Being sustained by him, 00:42:24.779 --> 00:42:25.420 Or your own? 00:42:27.339 --> 00:42:28.739 Relying on God's power, 00:42:28.980 --> 00:42:29.380 Is like, 00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:31.759 Consistently eating healthy meals, 00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:34.179 Instead of just drinking coffee, 00:42:34.179 --> 00:42:34.940 For every meal. 00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:36.500 Right? 00:42:36.500 --> 00:42:39.460 Those will give me energy, 00:42:40.179 --> 00:42:41.960 But in the end, 00:42:42.179 --> 00:42:43.159 You will turn sickly, 00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:45.139 Over just drinking coffee. 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:47.340 Right? 00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:49.000 Relying on your own strength, 00:42:49.099 --> 00:42:50.900 Over and over and over again, 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:52.820 Will cause you to rely on yourself. 00:42:54.099 --> 00:42:55.619 And the gospel is, 00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:57.699 I can do nothing apart from Christ, 00:42:57.800 --> 00:42:58.960 And I need him. 00:43:01.380 --> 00:43:03.039 That is who we need to turn to, 00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:04.019 For strength, 00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:05.760 For confidence. 00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:12.160 The value of our own lives, 00:43:12.560 --> 00:43:13.020 Number three, 00:43:14.340 --> 00:43:15.320 Paul says, 00:43:15.700 --> 00:43:17.100 In Acts, 00:43:17.600 --> 00:43:19.140 And now, 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:20.720 I am on my way to Jerusalem, 00:43:21.540 --> 00:43:22.620 Compelled by the Spirit, 00:43:23.180 --> 00:43:25.000 Not knowing what I will encounter there, 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:27.180 Except that in every town, 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:28.580 The Holy Spirit warns me, 00:43:28.580 --> 00:43:29.580 That chains and afflictions, 00:43:29.580 --> 00:43:31.060 Are waiting for me, 00:43:31.860 --> 00:43:33.300 That I consider my life, 00:43:33.420 --> 00:43:34.820 Of no value to myself. 00:43:34.820 --> 00:43:38.120 My purpose is to finish my course, 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:38.880 In the ministry, 00:43:39.240 --> 00:43:41.100 I received from the Lord Jesus, 00:43:41.420 --> 00:43:42.120 To testify, 00:43:43.380 --> 00:43:45.039 To the gospel of God's grace. 00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:51.239 Do you consider your life, 00:43:52.139 --> 00:43:52.679 God's, 00:43:52.759 --> 00:43:54.320 And that he can do anything, 00:43:54.860 --> 00:43:55.699 He wants, 00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:57.159 And desires, 00:43:57.880 --> 00:43:59.980 No matter the consequences. 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:00.779 Yes. 00:44:03.779 --> 00:44:04.699 When Paul says, 00:44:04.940 --> 00:44:06.559 But I consider my life, 00:44:06.619 --> 00:44:07.279 Of no value, 00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:08.199 But I have kids, 00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:09.539 I have two of my own kids, 00:44:10.539 --> 00:44:14.919 Is your life the Lord's? 00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:17.859 Can he do with it as he pleases? 00:44:17.860 --> 00:44:26.160 Can it be of no value to yourself? 00:44:28.200 --> 00:44:30.140 Is it of no value to yourself? 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:32.099 Is your purpose, 00:44:32.200 --> 00:44:33.140 As Paul's purpose, 00:44:33.620 --> 00:44:34.380 To finish, 00:44:35.420 --> 00:44:36.960 The race set before you? 00:44:41.900 --> 00:44:42.760 Number four, 00:44:42.900 --> 00:44:43.340 In prayer. 00:44:43.340 --> 00:44:43.740 Prayer, 00:44:43.740 --> 00:44:45.840 Prayer, 00:44:46.280 --> 00:44:47.760 I like to think, 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:49.519 Is faith and hope in action. 00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:50.500 Right? 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:53.039 There's many ways, 00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:54.539 That our faith, 00:44:54.640 --> 00:44:55.680 And our hope manifest, 00:44:56.340 --> 00:44:56.700 To me, 00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:58.700 Prayer is one of the plainest ones. 00:44:59.579 --> 00:45:00.720 It is a driving, 00:45:00.940 --> 00:45:01.860 To our knees, 00:45:01.940 --> 00:45:03.000 Of dependency, 00:45:03.600 --> 00:45:05.360 Of what we believe in God. 00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:05.700 Right? 00:45:06.340 --> 00:45:07.100 We hope, 00:45:07.160 --> 00:45:08.120 And what we do not see, 00:45:08.260 --> 00:45:09.780 Like I'm hoping, 00:45:10.420 --> 00:45:11.100 In God, 00:45:11.180 --> 00:45:12.000 In the resurrection, 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:13.119 In the ascension, 00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:14.039 In the return, 00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:15.519 And I pray, 00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:17.079 I pray, 00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:18.179 Because I believe, 00:45:18.179 --> 00:45:19.300 Of God's power. 00:45:20.780 --> 00:45:21.079 Right? 00:45:22.019 --> 00:45:22.539 Prayer. 00:45:23.619 --> 00:45:25.039 Our father is free, 00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:26.099 To do what he pleases, 00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:27.679 And what's crazy, 00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:29.699 Is that it pleases him, 00:45:29.860 --> 00:45:30.800 That we ask. 00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:33.739 Pleases God, 00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:35.019 That we ask for this. 00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:37.780 And is God not a generous God? 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:38.900 Yes he is. 00:45:39.900 --> 00:45:40.940 How is he a generous God? 00:45:40.940 --> 00:45:42.139 He sent his son, 00:45:42.139 --> 00:45:44.099 To die for you. 00:45:48.019 --> 00:45:49.940 He's given you his spirit, 00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:52.179 Sealed you. 00:45:53.179 --> 00:45:54.679 He's adopted you. 00:45:57.000 --> 00:45:57.980 And even if you think, 00:45:58.220 --> 00:45:58.579 That you're poor, 00:45:58.639 --> 00:45:59.599 I mean we live in America, 00:46:00.019 --> 00:46:01.280 Even if you think you're poor, 00:46:02.019 --> 00:46:04.539 There is eternal riches, 00:46:04.539 --> 00:46:05.500 To be had. 00:46:05.500 --> 00:46:11.139 God is generous. 00:46:12.579 --> 00:46:14.719 What is your faith like, 00:46:14.780 --> 00:46:15.579 When it comes, 00:46:16.199 --> 00:46:17.119 To believing, 00:46:17.699 --> 00:46:18.420 Trusting him, 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:20.559 Trusting that when you pray, 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:21.800 He listens. 00:46:22.420 --> 00:46:23.539 Even in the little things, 00:46:23.739 --> 00:46:25.059 Like your little baby, 00:46:25.179 --> 00:46:26.320 Staying up all night crying. 00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:28.380 That little baby, 00:46:28.820 --> 00:46:29.619 He doesn't cry that much. 00:46:29.619 --> 00:46:33.380 But he's a generous giver. 00:46:34.619 --> 00:46:36.400 He's a generous protector. 00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:40.980 The biggest thing, 00:46:41.119 --> 00:46:41.440 Honestly, 00:46:41.539 --> 00:46:42.659 The craziest thing, 00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:45.339 Is watching a lost person, 00:46:45.900 --> 00:46:47.779 Being renewed, 00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:49.940 Into new life, 00:46:50.059 --> 00:46:50.619 In rebirth. 00:46:50.619 --> 00:46:51.500 Right? 00:46:51.839 --> 00:46:52.679 Because it's, 00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:54.299 Old man to new man. 00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:56.339 Like that, 00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:57.519 That's the craziest thing, 00:46:57.659 --> 00:46:58.920 That we can ask God to do. 00:46:59.039 --> 00:46:59.980 It's regeneration. 00:47:01.279 --> 00:47:01.759 Adoption. 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:05.980 Continue to pray, 00:47:06.099 --> 00:47:06.659 For those things. 00:47:06.799 --> 00:47:07.619 And if you're not, 00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:08.259 Please do. 00:47:10.179 --> 00:47:11.480 And then with love, 00:47:12.179 --> 00:47:13.159 The last one, 00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:15.099 Paul says in, 00:47:15.099 --> 00:47:18.119 1 Corinthians 13, 00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:20.500 If I speak in tongues of men, 00:47:20.619 --> 00:47:21.359 And angels, 00:47:21.539 --> 00:47:22.599 But I have not love, 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:24.000 I am a noisy gong, 00:47:24.460 --> 00:47:25.619 Or clanging cymbal. 00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:28.440 And if I have prophetic powers, 00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:29.980 And I understand, 00:47:30.339 --> 00:47:31.159 All mysteries, 00:47:31.339 --> 00:47:31.880 And knowledge. 00:47:31.980 --> 00:47:32.859 And if I have faith, 00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:34.599 So as to move mountains, 00:47:35.019 --> 00:47:36.059 But have not love, 00:47:36.900 --> 00:47:38.119 I am nothing. 00:47:39.019 --> 00:47:40.139 And if I give away all, 00:47:40.319 --> 00:47:41.000 That I have, 00:47:41.099 --> 00:47:42.440 And I deliver up my body, 00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:43.139 To be burned, 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:44.960 Have not loved, 00:47:45.359 --> 00:47:46.059 I gain nothing. 00:47:47.339 --> 00:47:49.119 Even to die as a martyr, 00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:51.039 Without love, 00:47:51.139 --> 00:47:52.199 Is to gain nothing. 00:47:54.759 --> 00:47:56.119 What's your love like? 00:47:57.719 --> 00:47:57.980 Right? 00:47:58.279 --> 00:47:58.639 Love, 00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:00.880 Love is not this feeling of affection. 00:48:02.139 --> 00:48:04.400 Love is your actions. 00:48:05.839 --> 00:48:06.400 Right? 00:48:07.139 --> 00:48:09.559 What's your actions in obedience to God? 00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:12.559 What's that like? 00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:14.519 Like, 00:48:14.579 --> 00:48:16.079 Are you generous without love? 00:48:16.579 --> 00:48:17.159 Or grumbling? 00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:17.599 Right? 00:48:20.659 --> 00:48:21.519 You're giving, 00:48:22.319 --> 00:48:23.759 You're giving of your time, 00:48:23.899 --> 00:48:24.559 With your neighbors, 00:48:24.819 --> 00:48:25.539 With your kids, 00:48:26.099 --> 00:48:26.839 With your work, 00:48:27.339 --> 00:48:28.119 Your good worker. 00:48:28.259 --> 00:48:28.559 Do you, 00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:29.779 Do you love them more? 00:48:30.659 --> 00:48:31.940 It's not loving work itself, 00:48:32.099 --> 00:48:32.259 But, 00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:34.019 Loving God, 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:35.339 As you work for God. 00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:40.000 And then I close with this, 00:48:40.420 --> 00:48:41.379 In the world, 00:48:41.859 --> 00:48:43.059 You will have tribulation, 00:48:43.699 --> 00:48:44.480 But take heart, 00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:45.879 I have overcome the world. 00:48:46.700 --> 00:48:47.720 John 16, 00:48:48.260 --> 00:48:48.740 33. 00:48:48.740 --> 00:48:48.820 33. 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